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Dave Smith: Ben Shapiro’s Entire Career Is Built on Hypocrisy

Levin is getting very impatient with Trump. This is interesting to watch He's trying very hard not to come right out and condemn Trump, and it's making him crazy

Ben Shapiro continues to criticize Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff for adopting a "full-scale JD Vance-isolationist-realist position" on foreign policy and suggests that Israel should bomb Iran without U.S. approval, a move that obviously risks drawing the United States into war

On a 2nd read, this article resonates deeply with me as a Christian Armenian from Iran. It warns that US and Israeli strikes could trigger another “forever war,” endangering Iran’s Armenians, like Iraq’s Christians in 2003. Eldar Mamedov The American Conservative theamericanconservative.com/irans-christia…

In my latest for Responsible Statecraft, I argue that the E3’s threat of snapback is not just irrational — it is self-defeating. Europe, already grappling with the Ukraine war, can ill afford another avoidable crisis. Diplomacy, not coercion, is what we need. responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-iran-26…

Exactly right. That stupidity and laziness played straight into Dugin’s own PR, making him appear far more important than he really is.

DeSantis’ views on Middle East are deranged and unhinged. Thanks God he is not president.

Netanyahu is getting on Trump's last nerve. He and other hardliners' bluffs about attacking Iran 'without US help' is aimed at sabotaging his talks with Tehran. As Barbara Slavin Sina Toossi tell me at The American Conservative they know US would have to save them if they did attack (below)

NEW Eldar Mamedov : UK, France, and Germany reportedly getting egged on by Rubio to push snap-back sanctions on Iran. What is going on here? responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-iran-26…

Insightful from Burak Can Çelik on Houthis.

Excellent read by Jack Hunter on how neoconservatives are fading in the GOP. responsiblestatecraft.org/neocons-iran-m…

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Curious that France, UK, Germany, at the urging of Rubio are pushing for snap back sanctions when they know it could kill any deal that Trump/Witkoff are brokering today with Tehran 🤔 Great reporting here from Eldar Mamedov (below)

Rubio + E3 are trying to undermine Trump/Witkoff’s efforts to reach a deal with Tehran. Reckless strategy only likely to exacerbate the nuclear crisis with Iran. Details in my latest for Responsible Statecraft Kelley B. Vlahos Benjamin Armbruster

Useful read by Tigran Grigoryan on the recent Yerevan Dialogue. While I disagree with his criticisms of Joshua Kucera’s invitation, it certainly is deplorable that the organizers failed to invite Tigran’s org, but appear to have invited the ADA-linked propagandists. Embarrassing!

I wrote for National Interest on deepening Central Asia - GCC ties based on pursuit of foreign policy diversification and strategic autonomy. The potential is enormous, but hurdles remain nationalinterest.org/blog/silk-road…

Macron is fast becoming a laughing stock.

Erdogan can “expect” whatever he wants, but there won’t be any “Zangezour corridor”.

Between what Eldar Mamedov writes about France, Germany, UK playing spoiler on a new Iran deal and EU defence commissioner Kubilius's fever dreams, Europe's emerging grand strategy of "hegemony on the Eurasian continent" is bombastic, delusional, absurd and bad for all of us.

The "why" in this isn't a rhetorical question. Why really? What is in it for France, the UK and Germany, if Iran is further alienated and driven into the direction of nuclear armament? How are they protecting the safety and interests of the people of Europe with this policy?